A divided church: With searches, Ukraine focuses suspicions on Orthodox clergy
HANNA ARHIROVA and PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, report that this week’s search by Ukrainian security services and police at Pechersk Lavra monastery, one of the most revered Orthodox sites in Kyiv, was unusual but did not happen in isolation…
Ukrainian church seeks Kirill’s removal over ‘heretical’ defence of Russian invasion
United StatesRNS Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, has issued a letter to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, “first among equals” of Orthodox Christian leaders, asking Bartholomew to call Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, a teacher of heresy for his theological backing of the Ukraine war and deprive Kirill […]